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Experiment 6

This document describes an experiment to determine the metacentric height of floating bodies. Metacentric height is the distance between a body's center of gravity and its metacenter, which indicates the body's stability when tilted. The experiment involves tilting a metacentric height apparatus in a water tank and measuring the angle of tilt and shift in the apparatus' center of gravity to calculate its metacentric height using provided formulas. Sample problems are also provided to demonstrate calculating metacentric height for different floating vessels.

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Experiment 6

This document describes an experiment to determine the metacentric height of floating bodies. Metacentric height is the distance between a body's center of gravity and its metacenter, which indicates the body's stability when tilted. The experiment involves tilting a metacentric height apparatus in a water tank and measuring the angle of tilt and shift in the apparatus' center of gravity to calculate its metacentric height using provided formulas. Sample problems are also provided to demonstrate calculating metacentric height for different floating vessels.

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EXPERIMENT 6

METACENTRIC HEIGHT OF FLOATING BODIES

I. INTRODUCTION

When a body is placed in the water, as mentioned from the previous


experiment, there were two forces acting in it. These forces are namely weight
which acts at the centre of gravity of body and the net upward force called buoyancy
which acts at the centre of buoyancy or the centre of gravity of the volume
displaced. The intersection line of action of the buoyant force and the gravity is
called meta-center or M that should lie above the center of gravity to attain stable
equilibrium. This should be attain so that when the ship is tilted, the couple of the
two forces weight and buoyant force will be small and will return the ship to its
original position easily rolling and comfortable.

The distance between the centre of gravity and the meta-center is called the
metacentric height, in which the stability of a certain body depends.

The body is said to be in upright position if its vertical axis is aligned to the
two forces acting on it, and their location is collinear with this axis.

In case of tilting a body is said to be stable if it is tilted by a small angle, and


falls above the center of gravity. The couple due to the two equal opposite forces
acts in opposite direction of ship inclination, which is called righting moment and it
returns the body to its original position. Otherwise the body is unstable if it is tilted
by a large angle, and its metacentre is below the center of gravity. The couple that
acts in the same direction of the ship inclination, called an overturning moment. A
barge or ship is the best application for this topic.

II. OBJECTIVE
1. To designate and determine the Metacentric Height of the floating
specimen upon being tilted with the use of Metacentric Height
Apparatus
III. APPARATUS
 Metacentric height apparatus
 Weigh balance
 Water tank
 Measuring ruler

Figure 1 Metacentric height on water surface

IV. PROCEDURE

1. Weigh and measure the dimension of Metacentric height apparatus with


movable weight.
2. Remove the movable weight and weigh again.
3. Attach again the movable weight, and move it towards side extremities
(4cm).
4. Immerse the Metacentric height apparatus into the water tank. Measure
the angle that it projected. Record the data.
5. Compute the value of d using the formula:
𝑤
𝑑=
𝑏𝐿
6. Compute for the experimental value of MBo using the formula:

𝑃𝑒
𝑀𝐵𝑜 =
𝑏𝑑𝐿 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃
7. Repeat the procedure with increasing 𝑒 by 1 cm. until 5 trials are
made.
V. ILLUSTRATION

> Immersing the Metacentric height apparatus into the water

> Measuring the angle that is projected


> Measuring the angle that is projected
X. PROBLEM EXERCISE

1. If the center of gravity of a scow in the upright position is 5 m. abive the


center of gravity of the portion under water, and the scow is tipped 30°
causing the scow to shift sidewise by 3 m. Find the metacentric height.

2. A rectangular scow 9 m wide, 15 m long, and 3.6 m high has a draft in sea
water of 2.4 m. Its center of gravity is 2.7 m above in the bottom of the
scow. Determine the initial metacentric height.

3. A crane barge, 20 m long, 8 m wide, and 2m high loaded at its center with
a road roller weighing 20 short tons, floats on fresh water with a draft of
1.20 m and has its center of gravity located along its vertical axis at a point
1.50 m above its bottom. Compute the horizontal distance out to one side
from the centreline of the barge through which the crane could swing the
20 ton load which it had lifted from the center of the deck, and tip the
barge with the 20 m edge just touching the water surface?

4. A wooden barge of rectangular section is 8 m wide, 4 m high and 16 m


long. It is transporting in sea water (s=1.03) a total of 1500 kN including
its own weight and cargo. If a weight of 75 kN (included in 1500 kN) is
shifted a distance of 2.5 m to one side, it will cause the barge to go down
450 mm in the wedge of immersion and also rise 450 mm in the
corresponding wedge of emersion. The barge floats vertically (on an even
keel) before the shifting of the weight. Compute how far above the water
line is the center of gravity of the loaded barge.

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